314: Antigonus has become too powerful: outbreak of the Third Diadoch War (Cassander, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus against Antigonus and his son Demetrius); Antigonus declares the Freedom of Greece (text) and starts the siege of Tyre (summer; text)

311 (May): Seleucus liberates Babylon (text); defeat of Nicanor (autumn); the Peace of the Dynasts makes an end to the Third Diadoch War (december), and leaves Antigonus breathing space to declare the Babylonian War;